A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Clare Boothe Luce

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
Clare Boothe Luce

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
Clare Boothe Luce

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
Clare Boothe Luce

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes".
Clare Boothe Luce

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
Clare Boothe Luce

But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.
Clare Boothe Luce

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Clare Boothe Luce

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
Clare Boothe Luce

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
Clare Boothe Luce

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
Clare Boothe Luce

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Clare Boothe Luce

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Clare Boothe Luce

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
Clare Boothe Luce

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
Clare Boothe Luce

No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Boothe Luce

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
Clare Boothe Luce